On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hems...@ntlworld.com > wrote:
> On 23/06/18 21:03, John R. Dennison wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 04:58:21PM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > >> * Is there a better page I can point at? > > 'Better' is quite subjective; however this all goes back to > > > > https://web.archive.org/web/20060523223519/https://www. > centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127 > > > > and is as good of a reference as any. > > > > I would urge someone to scrape the gist of that thread and preserve it > > on wiki.c.o somewhere. > > > > If no one else does I will do it later today or tomorrow when I have a > > bit of time and motivation. > > You know, perhaps this is approaching this from the wrong direction. > Maybe the correct solution would be to change that welcome page to be > more explicit about what it is and why it's there so the question > doesn't arise in the first place. It *is* better than it used to be but > it could be better. If we just move the "The CentOS Project has nothing > to do with this website or its content, it just provides the software > that makes the website run." up to immediately after the "This server > powered by CentOS" under the Testing 123... heading. > > Does the attached patch make it more clear more easily? It gets the > essential message into the top paragrpah which is the one that gets > read. Having it off the bottom of the page where it resides in the > current version means you're reliant on people advancing to the next page. > > Trevor > How long does one need to be in IT to realize that people simply will not read things, period? Adding more text to an already long-winded page that clearly no one is reading will not solve the problem. The only solution is to eschew vanity completely and make a page that has nothing but "Testing 123" or something equally terse, and possibly mentioning Apache, if that is a requirement somewhere. The only mention of CentOS, should be the "powered by" badge and that's it. I would remove the "powered by CentOS" in the blue header, and then ALL of the text "About CentOS" and below. I understand the intention of trying to help users and admins, but it clearly isn't. As we have seen in the past, this page causes well-known problems, and afaik provides almost no benefit so should be removed. ~ Brian Mathis @orev
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